Activities

How Should Germany Respond to China’s Military Build-Up? Online Discussion With Video Recording

IFSH Contribution to the German Forum on Security Policy 2025 of the Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS) China is undertaking a  ...

Cyber, Nuclear, Conventional: How Can Germany Counter China’s Rearmament?

Online discussion event as part of the Deutschen Forums Sicherheitspolitik 2025 May 5, 2025, 10-11 a.m. Online Zoom Register here by May 2, 2025 The  ...

European Nuclear Deterrence: Of Independence and Security

“Can Europeans build their own independent extended nuclear deterrent?” Ulrich Kühn and other experts addressed that question for Strategic Europe. While  ...

Franziska Stärk in the Media: Doubts about US reliability spark new debate in Germany on the future of nuclear security

In an interview with DW News, Franziska Stärk spoke about the German debate on nuclear safety (link).  ...

Ulrich Kühn in the Media: A French Nuclear Umbrella

Ulrich Kühn spoke to MDR Aktuell about a possible French nuclear umbrella (link).  ...

Key Insights on Nuclear Risks and Disarmament

For the Third Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the Scientific Advisory Group prepared  ...

Ulrich Kühn in the Media: Compulsory Military Service and European Nuclear Deterrence

In the context of the 2025 Bundestag election, Ulrich Kühn spoke to WDR about the currently discussed reintroduction of compulsory military  ...

Timur Kadyshev and Ulrich Kühn in the Media: German Air Defense and the Scenario of a Nuclear War

Focus.de quoted Timur Kadyshev’s and Ulrich Kühn’s statements from the documentary “Krieg der Zukunft” on German air defense and the scenario  ...

Organizing Nuclear Policies in Europe

Amid rising tensions over Russia’s actions in Ukraine, debates about Europe’s nuclear security architecture have resurfaced. The historical reliance on the  ...

IFSH Peace Researchers on (Un)Peace in 2025

Will the year 2025 be more peaceful than the past year, or will existing conflicts continue to escalate? In an interview  ...